The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 has been awarded to:

Albert Fert
Université Paris-Sud; Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES, Orsay, France

and

Peter Grünberg
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance".

Fert was a speaker in the ICTP Conference on the Science and Technology of Spin Transport in Nanostructures in August 2002.

For further information, please see the Nobel Prize web site.